List of divided cities
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A divided city is one which, as a consequence of political changes or border shifts, presently constitutes (or once constituted) two separate entities. Listed below are the localities and the state they belonged to at the time of division.
Divided cities include:
- Baarle, divided since 1194, modern NL-BE division since 1831
- Bad Muskau, Germany
- Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary
- Beirut (since reunited) in Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war
- Berlin (since reunited) in Germany
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War in 1995 divided many cities that once were united in former Yugoslav Bosnia — for details, see the Inter-Entity Boundary Line article.
- Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
- Bratislava, Slovakia
- Engerau (Petržalka), Germany (reunited after World War II)
- El Paso del Norte, Mexico (divided in 1848 after the Mexican-American War)
- Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
- Frankfurt (Oder), East Germany, now Germany 69,700
- Słubice, Poland 17,600
- Forst (Lausitz), Germany
- Gaalkacyo, Somalia
- Ghajar divided between Israel and Lebanon
- Gmünd, Austria-Hungary
- Gorizia, Italy
- Gorizia, Italy
- Nova Gorica, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia
- Görlitz, Germany
- Görlitz, East Germany, now Germany 60,000
- Zgorzelec, Poland 38,000
- Guben, Germany
- Guben, East Germany, now Germany 22,000
- Gubin, Poland 19,000
- Herzogenrath, divided since 1815 at the Congress of Vienna (before that, department of Meuse-Inférieure)
- Herzogenrath, Germany (47,187)
- Kerkrade, Netherlands (47,681)
- Jerusalem (under Israeli control since 1967)[a]
- West Jerusalem, under Israeli control 1948-1967
- East Jerusalem (al-Quds), under Jordanian control 1948-1967
- Komárom, Austria-Hungary
- Komárom, Hungary
- Komárno, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia
- Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo[b]
- ethnic-Albanian south (Republic of Kosovo-controlled)
- ethnic-Serb north (North Kosovo)
- Küstrin, Germany
- Laufenburg divided between Switzerland and Germany
- Lloydminster, Canada, divided between Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905–1930
- The community was founded in 1903 in what was then the Northwest Territories, and located on the Fourth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey, which became the boundary between the newly created provinces two years later. In 1930, the community was reunited as a single town under the shared jurisdiction of both provinces, and reincorporated as a single city in 1958.
- Lo Wu (the romanization used in Hong Kong) / Luohu (the romanization used in mainland China)
- 1898-1911: divided between the Qing Empire and British Hong Kong
- 1911-1939: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
- 1939-1941: divided between Japanese occupation zone and British Hong Kong
- 1941-1945: both under Japanese occupation.
- 1945-1949: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
- 1949-1997: divided between Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China and British Hong Kong
- 1997-present: the People's Republic of China possesses the sovereignty of the entire town since Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China by the United Kingdom in 1997; the part that was previously possessed by British Hong Kong is now administered by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the rest of the town is still administered by Guangdong Province.
- Moyale, divided between Kenya and Ethiopia
- Narva, Estonia
- Nicosia, capital of Cyprus, divided since 1974 after the Turkish invasion on the island ( North Nicosia). The only divided capital in the world.
- Pello
- Rafah divided between the Palestinian Authority and Egypt
- Resuleyn, Ottoman Empire
- Rheinfelden divided between Switzerland and Germany
- Rijeka, Croatia
- Fiume, Italy (1924-1944)
- Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Rome, Papal States
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Sha Tau Kok (the romanization used in Hong Kong) / Shatoujiao (the romanization used in mainland China)
- 1898-1911: divided between the Qing Empire and British Hong Kong
- 1911-1939: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
- 1939-1941: divided between Japanese occupation zone and British Hong Kong
- 1941-1945: both under Japanese occupation.
- 1914-1949: divided between Guangdong Province, Republic of China and British Hong Kong
- 1949-1997: divided between Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China and British
- Teschen, Austrian Silesia
- Texarkana, USA
- Torneå, Kingdom of Sweden
- Union City, USA
- Walk, Livonia
- Veľké Slemence
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Notes:
| a. | ^ There was international controversy on the status of Jerusalem in 1948 which has been further complicated since 1967. See positions on Jerusalem for further information. |
| b. | ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. The latter declared independence on 17 February 2008, while Serbia claims it as part of its own sovereign territory. Its independence is recognised by 88 UN member states. |
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